Women in Late Medieval Britain: Makers, Patrons, and Readers
The 2024 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium
at Madingley Hall, Cambridge
Please note that this is a draft programme which may be subject to change.
Monday 12th August
1:00 pm Registration opens
1:45 pm Welcome
Session 1
2:00-3:30 pm
Joyce Coleman: Intertwined Lives: Alice Chaucer and Marguerite of Anjou
Margaret Connolly: The Pious and Personal Patronage of Janet Hepburn, Lady Seton (1480-1558)
3:30-4:00 pm Tea/Coffee
Session 2
4:00-6:00 pm
Virginia Blanton: Syon Abbey’s Sanctilogium salvatoris in Cod. Sankt Georgen 12
Veronica O’Mara: Elizabeth White, Dominican at Dartford and John Fisher’s half-sister
Jennifer N. Brown: The Idea of the Anchoress
6:00 pm Reception for O’Mara and Blanton’s new book (in Terrace Bar)
6:30 pm BBQ Dinner
8:00 pm Drinks Reception and Poster Presentation
Sponsored by the Early Book Society
Terrace Bar open
Tuesday 13th August
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
Session 3
9:00-10:30 am
Sarah Baechle: “My wombe wax out”: Class, Consent, Coercion, and the Distended Body Politic
Mary Morse: Women as Probable Commissioners and Owners of Prayer Rolls and Amulets
10:30-11:00 am Tea/Coffee
Session 4
11:00-12:30 pm
Kathryn Smith: Split Figures: Women/Men in Three English Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Manuscripts
Laura Slater: Devotion, Marriage and (Sex) Education in Medieval Manuscripts
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Excursion: Coaches depart for Library and Archives tour, St John’s College, Cambridge, and Christ’s College Chapel
2:00-4:00 pm Library Tour
Dinner out in Cambridge (individual arrangements)
Return via bus or taxi (individual arrangements)
8:00 pm Terrace Bar open
Wednesday 14th August
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
Session 5
9:00-10:30 am
Jonathan Hughes: The Emergence of the Mother Tongue and a Woman’s Perspective in Fourteenth- and Early Fifteenth-Century Italy and England
Nicholas Orme: Women and Education in England, 1200-1540
10:30-11:00 am Tea/Coffee
Session 6
11:00-12:30 pm
Lydia Zeldenrust: Women as Makers, Patrons, and Readers of Romances: What Counts as ‘English’?
S.C. Kaplan: Women Readers of Non-English Vernacular Texts in Late-Medieval Britain
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch
Session 7: The Pamela Tudor-Craig Memorial Lecture
2:00-3:15 pm
Sue Powell: Writing for Lady Margaret Beaufort: The Foundation of Christ’s College, Cambridge
3:15-3:45 pm Tea/Coffee
Session 8
3:45-5:15pm
Katharine Hindley: Charming Women: Medieval English Charms and Amulets for Female Users
Nicole Rice: Motherhood in the Late Medieval Hospital
6:30 pm Reception and Book Launch
7:30 pm Conference Dinner
Thursday 15th August
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
8:30-9:00 am Check out of rooms
Session 10
9:00-10:30 am
Caroline Barron: Joan Cogenho: a London Forger in 1423
Andrew Prescott: The Women of 1381
10:30-11:00 am Tea/Coffee
11:00 Julian Luxford: (site-talk) Highlights of Madingley Hall
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch and depart
